About December 4
December 4, 2023 is the 338th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 68 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 4
- 1110 –First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon.
- 1563 –The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).
- 1619 –38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
- 1674 –Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
- 1676 –Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
- 1783 –At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
- 1791 –The first edition of The Observer, the world’s first Sunday newspaper, is published.
- 1829 –In the face of fierce local opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that all who abet suttee in India are guilty of culpable homicide.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman’s campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1909 –The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
- 1937 –The first issue of the children’s comic, The Dandy Comic, is published, one of the first to use speech balloons.
- 1942 –World War II: Carlson’s patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
- 1943 –World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
- 1945 –By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN is established on October 24, 1945).
- 1954 –The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States
- 1969 –Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
- 1971 –The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
- 1981 –South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei “homeland” (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
- 1993 –A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
- 2006 –Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.
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